Nevada point guard Deonte Burton shoots around Boise State's Igor Hadziomerovic during the fist half of a quarterfinal game in the Mountain West Tournament on Thursday. The Wolf Pack lost, 75-62.

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Much like their meeting in Boise, Idaho, eight days earlier, the Boise State Broncos and Nevada Wolf Pack played a basketball game of massive momentum swings Thursday night in the Mountain West Conference Tournament.

The Wolf Pack, which battled back from a 14-point deficit to beat the Broncos in double overtime last week, rallied from a 47-34 hole with 15 minutes, 55 seconds to play this time, but it ran out of gas and ran out of bullets.

A layup by Mike Perez gave the Wolf Pack a 57-56 lead with 5:59 to play, but Nevada went cold from that point on. Boise State scored 19 of the game's final 25 points to ...